Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1752-186
Nature: 'A handsome church, in the Grecian style of architecture, with a lofty octagonal spire, was erected in 1756, at the sole expense of H. Boyd, Esq.: the Stone for building it was procured from the quarries in the parish, which were then worked on that gentleman's estate.'  Built as chapel-of-ease for Boyd family. Cost: £2769.4s.7½d.  Attribution to CM proposed by O'Dwyer but questioned by Brett.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 128;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),71-72(illus.);  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 31(illus.);  exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 228.